How to Use geriatrician in a Sentence

geriatrician

noun

• The number of geriatricians in the United States is shrinking, while the need for them is increasing.
  — NBC News, 8 May 2018
• In 14 states, the number of geriatricians will need to increase fivefold.
  — Kimberly Leonard, Washington Examiner, 12 Mar. 2020
• Much of their care is being outsourced to geriatricians.
  — STAT, 20 June 2019
• For years, geriatricians and researchers have sounded the alarm about the use of benzodiazepines among older adults.
  — Paula Span, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2018
• Mia Yang, a geriatrician at Wake Forest, noted that the impact of a .45-point difference on the scale depended on where someone was.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 1 Oct. 2022
• While frequent falls are a sign of increasing frailty, geriatricians say there's no reason Carter can't make a full recovery.
  — Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, 28 Nov. 2019
• Last year, there were just 7,279 certified geriatricians in the United States, only about half practicing full time.
  — Paula Span, The Seattle Times, 26 Oct. 2018
• Some of those people probably are taking drugs that aren’t helping and can cause problems, researchers and geriatricians say.
  — Paula Span, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
• In 2014, the median yearly salary of a geriatrician in private practice was less than half of a cardiologist’s salary.
  — Sara Zeff Geber, Forbes, 3 June 2022
• It is founded and directed by Dr. Paula Rochon, a geriatrician who’s been researching the specificities of how women age for decades.
  — Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• Each of the three candidates is at higher risk of becoming seriously ill because of their age, said Aronson, who is a geriatrician.
  — Joe Garofoli, SFChronicle.com, 9 Mar. 2020
• Ideally, the patients will consult with their primary care physicians or geriatricians, but those docs are often overburdened and pressed for time.
  — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2020
• Plastic surgeons may buy mansions, but geriatricians clip coupons.
  — Monya De, STAT, 17 Feb. 2020
• What matters most, geriatricians emphasize, are changes in an individual’s score over months and years.
  — Jeremy Samuel Faust, Slate Magazine, 9 June 2017
• Loss of muscle power begins within a day or two of becoming bedridden, explains Amit Arora, a geriatrician.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2018
• The groom’s mother, a pediatrician, and father, a geriatrician and palliative medicine specialist, share a practice in New York.
  — New York Times, 18 June 2017
• His dad is a geriatrician at Rush University Medical Center and serves as the medical director of a nursing home.
  — Angie Leventis Lourgos, chicagotribune.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• In order to effectively care for the number of seniors who are projected to have Alzheimer’s dementia in 2050, the number of practicing geriatricians would have to nearly triple, according to the report.
  — Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 15 Mar. 2023
• James Kirkland started his career in 1982 as a geriatrician, treating aging patients.
  — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2022
• Palmer, a geriatrician who makes medical decisions for her mother, said her mother plans to get vaccinated.
  — Lauren Hernández, SFChronicle.com, 14 Dec. 2020
• Evans, the Charlottesville geriatrician, who turns 60 this fall, said some specialties are not attracting nearly enough young doctors because the nature of the work has shifted in a less interesting direction.
  — Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
• Jay Meyerowitz, a geriatrician in private practice who serves as the medical director of two New Jersey nursing homes, thought he was done getting phone calls about coronavirus infections in the facilities.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2021
• The ranks of doctors and nurses—especially internists and, in an unfortunate twist, geriatricians—are also thinning.
  — Joseph Coughlin, Slate Magazine, 22 Aug. 2017
• Primary care providers can perform a quick assessment and decide whether you or your loved one should be referred to a specialist, like a neurologist or geriatrician, who can perform more in-depth cognitive testing.
  — Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 25 Oct. 2023
• The University of Southern California veered sharply and deliberately from tradition in naming the first woman — and the first geriatrician — to lead its 133-year-old medical school.
  — Susan Abram, Washington Post, 20 June 2018
• Patients at the Villa are cared for by nurses and nursing assistants, and evaluated weekly by family doctors or geriatricians.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2019
• The in-home team is supported by a broader interdisciplinary team led by a geriatrician, which includes a mental health provider, pharmacist, and program coordinator.
  — Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2021
• Since then, Masel said, the practice has spread to family doctors, geriatricians, neurologists, and other physicians; the university has also created a code in the electronic health record to note when patients are recording their conversations.
  — Casey Ross, STAT, 18 May 2018
• Many doctors – including area geriatricians – say Medicare’s actions will have more impact on its disabled patients than seniors, because older people usually are not on high doses of opioids, which are more dangerous for the elderly.
  — Stacey Burling, Philly.com, 24 May 2018
• Almost certainly at the bottom, too, but not evaluated in the compensation survey: geriatricians, palliative-care physicians, and headache specialists.
  — Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017

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